28th September 2007
If you don't think the internet is a viable medium for promoting a home-based business then you might have had your head under a rock for the last 5 years. There is so much money to be made using the internet a person could literally devote the rest of t...
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25th September 2007
Home based businesses are often inexpensive to begin, some starting at just a couple hundred dollars. Some businesses, however, that can pay more substantial commissions of $1000 and more per sale can cost several thousand dollars to get started.
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07th August 2007
In the "up" scenario, the maximum gain that can be attained is the stock finishing at $10.00 or even higher.
At $10.00, you would profit from the full value of the extrinsic value of the option which is $.50 and you would also have $.50 of capital appr...
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06th August 2007
Options Trading: The "Stagnant" Scenario
When we apply the covered call strategy to the stagnant stock scenario, we take a negative return scenario and turn it into a positive scenario. Remember, when we sell an option, we receive a premium for doing s...
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31st July 2007
The dictionary defines the term strategy as " 1 a) the science of planning and directing larger scale military operations, specifically (as distinguished from TACTICS which are specific actions) of maneuvering forces into the most advantageous position pr...
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05th July 2007
A put option is a contract between two parties (a buyer and a seller) whereby the buyer acquires the right but not the obligation to sell a specified stock or other underlying instrument at a specified price by a specified date.
The seller of a put opt...
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05th July 2007
Volatility is defined as the degree to which the price of a stock or other underlying instrument tends to move or fluctuate over a period of time.
Implied Volatility is a value derived from the option's price. It indicated what the market's perception ...
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04th July 2007
Premium
Premium is the total amount of money (price) you pay for an option. So, if the Microsoft (MSFT) May 65 calls cost you $1.50 then the $1.50 is the amount of the premium of the option.
The total price of an option (premium) consists of two com...
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02nd July 2007
An option can be described by its strike price's proximity to the stock's price. An option can either be in-the-money (ITM), out-of-the-money (OTM), or at-the-money (ATM).
An at-the-money option is described as an option whose exercise or strike price ...
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02nd July 2007
A call option gives the buyer the right but not the obligation to buy a specific security at a specific price by a specific date. It's a way of "locking in" the purchase price of the stock for a period of time.
A put option gives the buyer the right bu...
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01st July 2007
What is an Option?
An option is a traded security that is a derivative product.
By derivative product we mean that it is a product whose value is based upon or derived from the price of something else. Since we are talking about stocks, a stock opti...
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01st July 2007
In today's market environment, the best remedy for this situation is for you to get more involved in your own investing decisions.
The problem is that most individual investors do not have the knowledge, resources, or time to spend doing their own rese...
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01st July 2007
How many of you out there think that the market is performing well?
How many think the market is performing poorly?
And how many feel the markets performance is neutral?
Actually none of these answers is correct. You see, the market does not perf...
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06th June 2007
Paul had received a lot of bad press over the last 2000 years. But he is quite possibly one of the most authentic Christian leaders the world has ever seen.
The Apostle Paul:
1) Paul was born a Roman Citizen (from Tarsus, present day Turkey).
2)...
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